Jack White is excited to announce that he will be participating in a special LIVE from the NPYL event celebrating and exploring the first volume of The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records 1917-1932 at the New York Public Library Stephen A. Schwarzman Building in New York City on Tuesday, November 19th at 6pm ET. The program includes a discussion with Jack, Revenant's Dean Blackwood, and Princeton professor and author Daphne A. Brooks, and close examinations of recordings from Paramount's catalogue by authors Greil Marcus and Scott Blackwood. A special exhsibition of artifacts from The New York Public Library's Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound curated specifically for this occasion will also be on display before and after the event. Tickets go on-sale today at 12pm ET.
Additionally, attendees will receive a free 78 RPM record specially pressed for the event from Third Man and Revenant Records featuring two fiery sermons from the Paramount catalog, as well as automatically be entered into a raffle to win the first volume of The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records 1917-1932.
Purchase the Rise and Fall of Paramount Records 1917-1932, Volume 1 here.
Learn more about the project and preservation from the 2 NPR segments that ran over the weekend: Holding Music History In Your Hands: Why Archives Matter / Paramount Records: The Label Inadvertently Crucial To The Blues
Well that was fast. I would have liked to have gone. The library is right near Bryant Park and on my walk to & from work. Oh well, let me know if Jack wants a chocolate malt made the right way & I’ll swing by and meet him by 781.643 in the Dewey Decimal system.
@CINCI – I’m 102 – you mean I could have gotten the Senior Citizen discount to see Jack White? DAMN!!!!!! LOL!!! I am looking forward to this event – makes up for the fact I didn’t get tickets for the Brendan Benson show in Nashville. I will let you know all about this and you can let me know all about Brendan’s show. :)
im with Red Letters on this… live stream for the vault please
managed to get 1 ticket today.. blocks away from my job too.. looking forward to this!
Hey Cathryn, Congratulations on getting a ticket to this event at the New York Public Library. That’s going to be a great event for you to be at. I saw that senior citizens can get discount tickets. When you live to be that old (some places it’s 55 and over and I qualify) it is good to get some breaks in life. After you attend the event you will have to tell us all about it in the chat room…I am painting the inside of the house and raking leaves on the outside of the house = no time to waste in the chat room for a while but we can always count on you to be staying up on all the happenings. Have fun!!!
So happy to have gotten a ticket and the free 78 RPM from TMR is an added bonus. Really looking forward to hearing Jack at the talk.
@ ROJA – I couldn’t believe when I saw them showing – had seen the “sold out” message since 12:04. Hopefully some more come back up – worth F5’ing just in case!
@cazza @Dunksaroo You were lucky…tickets are sold out since I tried at 12:33…you took the last ones. Enjoy
Just got a pair right now (12:33pm EST)! Get in there!
Got my tickets! Apparently I am pretty lucky – had two other friends try to no avail. Can’t wait and only blocks away from my work too!